The Wonder

The Wonder
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Publisher : Little, Brown
Total Pages : 289
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780316393881
ISBN-13 : 0316393886
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis The Wonder by : Emma Donoghue

Now a Netflix film starring Florence Pugh: In this “old-school page turner” (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review) by the bestselling author of Room, an English nurse is brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle—a girl said to have survived without food for months—and soon finds herself fighting to save the child's life. Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who believes herself to be living off manna from heaven, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl. Written with all the propulsive tension that made Room a huge bestseller, The Wonder works beautifully on many levels -- a tale of two strangers who transform each other's lives, a powerful psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil. Acclaim for The Wonder: "Deliciously gothic.... Dark and vivid, with complicated characters, this is a novel that lodges itself deep" (USA Today, 3/4 stars) "Heartbreaking and transcendent"(New York Times) "A fable as lean and discomfiting as Anna's dwindling body.... Donoghue keeps us riveted" (Chicago Tribune) "Donoghue poses powerful questions about faith and belief" (Newsday)

The Code for Love and Heartbreak

The Code for Love and Heartbreak
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Publisher : Harlequin
Total Pages : 253
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ISBN-10 : 9781488069413
ISBN-13 : 1488069417
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis The Code for Love and Heartbreak by : Jillian Cantor

In this contemporary romcom retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma by USA TODAY bestselling author Jillian Cantor, there’s nothing more complex—or unpredictable—than love. When math genius Emma and her coding club co-president, George, are tasked with brainstorming a new project, The Code for Love is born. George disapproves of Emma’s idea of creating a matchmaking app, accusing her of meddling in people’s lives. But all the happy new couples at school are proof that the app works. At least at first. Emma’s code is flawless. So why is it that perfectly matched couples start breaking up, the wrong people keep falling for each other, and Emma’s own feelings defy any algorithm?

When Charley Met Emma

When Charley Met Emma
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Publisher : Beaming Books
Total Pages : 40
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ISBN-10 : 9781506480237
ISBN-13 : 1506480233
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis When Charley Met Emma by : Amy Webb

Winner of the 2019 Foreword INDIES Award Bronze Medal, When Charley Met Emma teaches kids about disability, empathy, and the beauty of friendships with people who are different from you. When Charley goes to the playground and sees Emma, a girl with limb differences who gets around in a wheelchair, he doesn't know how to react at first. But after he and Emma start talking, he learns that different isn't bad, sad, or strange--different is just different, and different is great! This delightful book will help kids think about disability, kindness, and how to behave when they meet someone who is different from them.

The Secret of Dinswood

The Secret of Dinswood
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Publisher : BHC Press
Total Pages : 387
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ISBN-10 : 9781948540360
ISBN-13 : 1948540363
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis The Secret of Dinswood by : Ellen Alexander

Desperate to get away from a home where she no longer feels wanted, twelve-year-old Emma Higsby is elated when she wins a scholarship to the prestigious Dinswood Academy boarding school. Emma quickly falls in love with the renovated castle nestled in the heart of the mountains. But when rumors surface that her new school is having financial problems and may have to close, she begins to search for a way to save her new home. When she discovers a riddle of buried treasure left by the eccentric school’s founder, Lord Dinswood, she and her friends must use their courage and intelligence to solve each clue. But someone else is searching for the treasure as well. Emma and her friends will have to race against time and discover the secret of Dinswood first!

What to Do with a Box

What to Do with a Box
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Publisher : The Creative Company
Total Pages : 12
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ISBN-10 : 9781566607025
ISBN-13 : 1566607027
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis What to Do with a Box by : Jane Yolen

Jane Yolen poetically reminds young readers that a simple box can be a child's most imaginative plaything as artist Chris Sheban illustrates its myriad and magical uses. Reviews -Booklist, November 2021 “A Box! A box is a wonder indeed. The only such magic that you’ll ever need.” This book offers gentle suggestions for what to do with a cardboard box, from the practical to the fantastical and from solitary to social.”

A Promise Is a Promise

A Promise Is a Promise
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Publisher : booksbyfay
Total Pages : 195
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ISBN-10 : 9780982459508
ISBN-13 : 0982459505
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis A Promise Is a Promise by : Fay Risner

Home Health Nurse Hal Lindstrom is assigned Amish widower John Tapp. She offers to stay with his children while he is in the hospital. Hal discovers that the troubled children are hiding a tragic secret at their farm in southern Iowa.

Khalil's Dream and other stories

Khalil's Dream and other stories
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Publisher : Petra Books
Total Pages : 117
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781989048269
ISBN-13 : 1989048269
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Khalil's Dream and other stories by : Danielle Michaud Aubrey

10 new and original stories with painted illustrations by Nadia Ilchuk. Imaginative stories of day-to-day adventures with human and animal characters that teach a life lesson. The story-telling is in the style of classics like The Adventures of Peter Rabbit, The Wind in the Willows or Winnie the Pooh in which animal characters have normal yet imaginative adventures, providing a vehicle for learning about community, compassion and collaboration. The elements used to craft the stories are: • normal, every-day activities into which is woven a challenge or a difficult situation. • talking animal characters engaged with human characters, involved in adventures. • lessons relating to teamwork, safety, helping others and kindness. About 2000 words per story.

Daddy

Daddy
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Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages : 289
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780812988048
ISBN-13 : 0812988043
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Daddy by : Emma Cline

From the bestselling author of The Girls comes a “brilliant” (The New York Times) story collection exploring the dark corners of human experience. “Daddy’s ten masterful, provocative stories confirm that Cline is a staggering talent.”—Esquire NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY An absentee father collects his son from boarding school after a shocking act of violence. A nanny to a celebrity family hides out in Laurel Canyon in the aftermath of a tabloid scandal. A young woman sells her underwear to strangers. A notorious guest arrives at a placid, not-quite rehab in the Southwest. In ten remarkable stories, Emma Cline portrays moments when the ordinary is disturbed, when daily life buckles, revealing the perversity and violence pulsing under the surface. She explores characters navigating the edge, the limits of themselves and those around them: power dynamics in families, in relationships, the distance between their true and false selves. They want connection, but what they provoke is often closer to self-sabotage. What are the costs of one’s choices? Of the moments when we act, or fail to act? These complexities are at the heart of Daddy, Emma Cline’s sharp-eyed illumination of the contrary impulses that animate our inner lives.

Ask Emma (Ask Emma Book 1)

Ask Emma (Ask Emma Book 1)
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 117
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781499808179
ISBN-13 : 1499808178
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Ask Emma (Ask Emma Book 1) by : Sheryl Berk

Emma Woods knows just how to fix all her peers' problems-or so she thinks-in this first book in the brand-new middle grade series Ask Emma, from the bestselling creators behind the Cupcake Club series! When 13-year-old Emma Woods gets that tingling feeling in her fingertips, she knows she's on to a great idea-and starting an advice blog for her classmates at Austen Middle may be one of her most brilliant ones yet! Who better to give advice on friendship, style, school, and even crushes than someone who's going through it too? But when Ask Emma goes live, she quickly realizes not everyone sees it that way. Suddenly, Emma is bombarded with peers asking her to help them postpone quizzes, get out of detention, and cut gym class short. This wasn't exactly what she had in mind. . . .What's worse, someone is posting hurtful comments, telling her to mind her own business. Despite her good intentions, Emma's blog seems to only be getting her-and her friends--deeper and deeper into trouble. Will Ask Emma come to an end before it's really begun? Or can Emma find her voice, write what's in her heart, and truly stand up for what she believes in? This book includes an appendix on cyberbullying resources.

Emma's Secret

Emma's Secret
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 502
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0312307020
ISBN-13 : 9780312307028
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Emma's Secret by : Barbara Taylor Bradford

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